Strætó bs.
4+

iPhone Screenshots

Description

Free app provided by Strætó bs. (the public transport authority for the Greater Reykjavík area) for Icelandic public transport including a journey planner, realtime and travel information and mobile payment.

The traveller can both plan his journey, pay for his trip (within the Greater Reykjavík area), view stop information and get real time updates on his journey.

The Strætó app provides comprehensive information to help plan your journey in the capital area and many other areas in Iceland. The other areas included are:

What’s New

Ratings and Reviews

2.4 out of 5

20 Ratings

20 Ratings

cocamojoe82
, 12/16/2018

Good, but far from perfect

As a tourist, this app is great, especially from getting in and out of the airport (depending on the time of your flight, as these buses don’t go all night) for far cheaper than the tourist bus lines. But there’s part of the rub: when I was here about a year ago, the one solo ticket that I bought covered all of my transfers to the airport; right now (I’m sitting on the bus right now), the driver charged me extra, over 1,000 kroners. Still cheaper than the tourist buses, but still frustrating, as nothing in the app told me about this.

Other complaints: the “trip planner” and “live map” thing are both great, but there should be a way to integrate the two. If I’m in “trip planner” mode, then it should automatically show me the buses on that route. There should also be a way to show the driver my ticket without having to cancel out of “trip planner”.

In short, the app needs some more seamless integration, and also to be more straightforward about extra costs to get to the airport.

System Of A Blargh
, 05/04/2018

Works great but...

... Strætó can make it better to promote app adoption and ridership:

- add the ability to purchase multiple tickets at the same time for one person.

Having to do the same steps multiple times to get a week of rides is a pain. One adult buying tickets for multiple adults for the same ride just seems weird and it seems Strætó knows this because if more than 1 ticket is selected a “you’re buying X tickets for X people” type message pops up. O.o

- add night bus ticketing

- add the ability to add a non-Icelandic phone number. If this is already a thing, it didn’t work for a few different visitors I know. If it’s not a thing already, most travelers don’t bother to get a SIM with an Icelandic phone number, especially travelers from the EU since roaming isn’t a thing in the EU/EEA anymore.

NikaMR
, 07/28/2018

Important feature bugged out

The trip planner feature does not sync with the live map feature, so I was waiting half an hour at the wrong stop with the same name as the stop that I was supposed to be at. Also while I was waiting at the wrong stop, I tried using the live map to check the schedule for that stop but it repeatedly refused to load even though my WiFi was working. If either of these weren’t the case, I wouldn’t have wasted an hour pointlessly waiting for the wrong bus.